Robert Ellice Mack

Robert Ellice Mack was a late 19th-century writer and editor associated with illustrated children’s books and poetry anthologies. Surviving bibliographic records show him credited on books such as Treasures of Art and Song, All Round the Clock, From Leaf to Leaf, Full of Fun, and Old Father Christmas Picture-Book.

The record suggests he often worked as an editor or arranger as well as an author, gathering poems, songs, and pictures into attractive gift books for young readers. A French-language reference on publisher Ernest Nister also notes that Mack directed Nister’s London house in 1888, which helps explain his strong connection to that famous line of Victorian children’s books.

Much about his personal life is hard to confirm from readily available reliable sources, so the clearest picture comes through the books themselves: colorful, family-friendly volumes designed to delight children and showcase illustration alongside verse. No confirmed portrait image could be verified from the sources reviewed here.